How to edit datafile

[marc317]

What do i have to use to open datafile to edit?

Thank you,

[five]

If you've already got it decompressed and ready for viewing, use wordpad that comes with windows. Another good one is TextPad.

[capa]

Don't know if this would help, but here is the contents of the 2 .bat files I run to decompress and compress the datafile.txt. You'll need eazip to perform the decompress and compress.

To decompress to allow for editing:

eazip.exe -u datafile.txt

copy datafile.txt DatafileEdit.txt

del datafile.txt

PAUSE

You'll see that I actually have a file created called DatafileEdit.txt. This is the file that you can edit with any text editor (Notepad, WordPad).

To compress after editing:

eazip.exe -c DatafileEdit.txt

copy DatafileEdit.txt datafile.txt

del DatafileEdit.txt

PAUSE

You'll see that the file you edited is the one that gets compressed and then copied back into the datafile.txt file name.

Hope this helps!

C

[spitoon]

There is a download in the MVP 2005 sections (Utilities) that use a nice GUI to perform all this for you. You can select to decompress it and open it in the editor of your choice. Then when you are done, it will recompress it for you.

[marc317]

Thank you,

I will try this utility